Re: Password hash as LUKS key

[Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>]

You probably have an issue with line endings. In priciple,
this works and is supported, but interactive, pipe and 
read-from-file are all a bit different.

The man-page has more info on this. Best try it out with a
really simple password like "test".

Regards,
Arno


On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 15:35:28 CET, Martin Olsson wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I want to encrypt drives for users. I want to avoid having their password sent to me in clear text. 
> I was thinking of having them use a tool like mkpasswd to create a password hash and then 
> pipe the generated hash into cryptsetup luksAddKey.
> 
> Unfortunately that didn't work when I tried it. 
> 
> So I guess it's not supported right? Maybe you know some other way to achieve what I want to accomplish?
> 
> BR,
> Martin

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